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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JUDGES</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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Deborah and Barak sing a song of praise because of deliverance of Israel from Canaanite bondage.
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Then</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Singing.">sang</a> Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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Praise ye the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, <i>even</i> I, will sing unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; I will sing <i>praise</i> to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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Lord</span>, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 68: 7.">marchedst</a> out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
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The mountains <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/5a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR quaked; Ps. 97: 5; Micah 1: 4; Hel. 12: 9; 3 Ne. 22: 10; D&C 109: 74; D&C 133: 22 (21-22, 40); Moses 6: 34.">melted</a> from before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> that <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 68: 8.">Sinai</a> from before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 22 (21-22).">highways</a> were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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<i>The inhabitants of</i> the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Motherhood.">mother</a> in Israel.
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They chose new <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 17.">gods</a>; then <i>was</i> war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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My heart <i>is</i> toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people.  Bless ye the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Speak, ye that ride <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE on animals used by rich merchants, leaders.">on</a> white asses, ye that sit <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/10b" mark="b" type="D" title="Heb. meaning uncertain; perhaps ‘on rich cloths, carpets.’">in</a> judgment, and walk by the way.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB By the voices of archers down among the watering places, there they rehearse the righteousness of Jehovah, even the righteousness of his rulers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates."><i>They</i></a> that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> the righteous acts <i>toward the inhabitants</i> of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> go down to the gates.
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Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Then a remnant descended against the nobles; the people of the LORD descended for me against the mighty.">Then</a> he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made me have dominion over the mighty.
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Out of Ephraim <i>was there</i> a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 32: 40; Josh. 17: 1.">Machir</a> came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB hold the sceptre of the muster-officer, the marshal’s staff.">handle</a> the pen of the <sup>c</sup><a href="judg/5/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">writer</a>.
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And the princes of Issachar <i>were</i> with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley.  For the divisions of Reuben <i>there</i> <i>were</i> great thoughts of heart.
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Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks?  For the divisions of Reuben <i>there were</i> great searchings of heart.
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Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?  Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
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Zebulun and Naphtali <i>were</i> a people <i>that</i> jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
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The kings came <i>and</i> fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
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They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon.  O my soul, <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB (perhaps) tread (them) down with might.">thou</a> hast trodden down strength.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Then did the horse hoofs stamp.">Then</a> were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
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Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 21: 5 (5-6).">came</a> not to the help of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to the help of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> against the mighty.
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Blessed above <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Woman.">women</a> shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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He asked water, <i>and</i> she gave <i>him</i> milk; she brought forth <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB curds, curdled milk.">butter</a> in a <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/25b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB bowl of nobles.">lordly</a> dish.
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She put her hand to the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/26a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB tent peg or pin.">nail</a>, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 4: 21 (17-21).">temples</a>.
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At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
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The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot <i>so</i> long in coming?  why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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<sup>a</sup><a href="judg/5/30a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Are they not finding, dividing spoil.">Have</a> they not sped?  have they <i>not</i> divided the prey; to every man a damsel <i>or</i> two; to Sisera <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/5/30b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR a spoil of dyed stuffs.">a</a> prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, <i>meet</i> for the necks of <i>them that take</i> the spoil?
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So let all thine enemies perish, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: but <i>let</i> them that love him <i>be</i> as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.  And the land had rest forty years.
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